Sigla: 
Modern names for the manuscript, including inventory and publication numbers.
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PGM XIa |
| Category:
Classification of the contents, e.g. magical (formulary or applied), alchemical, liturgical, documentary or medical. |
Magical (formulary) |
| Contents: | Original Use: 1. Ro ll. 1-59: Account, payments in kind to workmen. Re-use: 2. Vo ll. 1-40: “Apollonius of Tyana’s Old Serving Woman”: ritual to acquire spirit assistant (paredros) (ritual of apparition, unmediated: direct). |
| Language(s): | Greek |
| Script(s): | Greek |
| Dialect: | |
| Language/dialect notes: | |
| Date:
Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. |
336 – 500 |
| Date notes: | 4th-5th century according to GEMF (11/7/2019). Recto text dates to July 336, so re-use must date to after this date; 401-500 (Kenyon 1893: p. 123). |
| Archive/collection:
Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. |
KYP A7 |
| Archive name: | Hermonthis Archive |
| State of edition: | Published. |
| Image: |
| Form: | Roll |
| Material: | Papyrus |
| Dimensions (cm): | Height: 28 | Width: 38 | Depth: |
| Dimensions (notes): | Measurements by KD (3/4/2019) |
| Folding pattern: | 5 vertical creases. |
| State of preservation: | Original use fragmentary; re-use complete. |
| Pages/Columns:
Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.
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2 |
| Pages/Columns (notes): | 2 columns of re-use on verso (↓), 40 lines; 3 surviving columns on original use text on recto (→), 59 lines. Verso text written at 180 degrees to recto. |
| Hand: |
| Findspot: | Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 812) |
| Place of purchase: | Memnoneia – Djeme, Thebes West, Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1341) |
| Writingspot: | Hermonthis (Armant), Egypt (?) (TM places ID: 1341) |
| Present Location: | London, British Library |
| Collection History: | Purchased in 1888, probably acquired by Budge from an Egyptian through Messrs. Bywater, Tanqueray & Co, 12 May 1888 as part of purchase including other Hermonthis Archive texts. |
| Trismegistos collection:
Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. |
192 |
| Collection website: | http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS040-002104505 |
| Notes/Discussion: |
| Bibiliography |
| Editions: | Kenyon, F.G. Greek Papyri in the British Museum I. London: British Museum 1893, p. 123-125, p. 192-194, no. 125. |
| Translations: | Betz, Hans D. The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Including the Demotic Spells. Vol. 1. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986, p. 150-151, no. XIa. |
| General: | Horak, Ulrike. Illuminierte Papyri, Pergamente und Papiere I, Wien, 1992, p. 246. |
| Trismegistos ID: | 33213 |
PAThs: |
| PGM:
Papyri Gracae Magicae
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11a |
SM:
Supplementum Magicum
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GEMF:
Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming)
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75 | ACM:
Ancient Christian Magic
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| Bélanger Sarrazin:
Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” |
AKZ:
Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte |
CBd:
Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database |
Mert.-Pack:
Mertens-Pack online database |
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| Van H:
van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires |
Bruyn-Dijkstra:
de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" |
TheDefix:
Thesaurus Defixionum |
To Zodion: |
| Edit History: | KD (3/4/2019); MPS (14/9/2020) |